Asahi ware
type of Japanese pottery
Asahi ware (朝日焼, Asahi-yaki) is a type of Japanese pottery traditionally from Uji, Kyoto.
Matsubayashi Hōsai XVI (松林豊斎 十六代) is one of the eminent masters of Asahi.
History
Asahi kilns began production in the Keichō era (1596-1615) in Uji, Kyoto. Asahi-yaki was established with other new kilns of the time such as Akahada-yaki, Zeze-yaki, Akashi-yaki, and Shizuhata-yaki, Kiyomizu-yaki.
Since the founder of the Asahi kiln, Tōsaku, it has provided tea bowls treasured for preparing tea whipped tea to nobility, warrior rulers, and tea masters. Years after Kobori Enshu's death, a tea master in the seventeenth century, a prestigious list of seven kilns would be created. Known as Enshu's Seven Kilns, it included Takatori, Agano, Shidoro, Akahada, Zeze, Asahi, and Kosobe.
Asahi ware has been in continuous production for over 400 years, through sixteen generations of the Matsubayashi family. The first Asahi ware kiln was built between the shift from the Momoyama Period (c. 1585–1605) and the Edo Period (c.
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